US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 7 for "Image acquisition apparatus, image acquisition method, and medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,144, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image acquisition apparatus, image acquisition method, and medium" was invented by Hisafumi Ebisawa (Tokyo), Yoshikatsu Ichimura (Tokyo) and Ichiro Harada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus acquiring an image of a subject of a phase object includes: a first light irradiation unit irradiating the subject with a parallel light as a first light; a second light irradiation unit irradiating the subject with a second light at an incidence angle different from that of the first light irradiation unit; an imaging lens having a telecentric optical system; and...